Andrea Moro
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Andrea Moro

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Andrea Moro (1962) is full professor of General Linguistics at the Institute of Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, former head of the Undergraduate Courses and former director of the interfaculty program in cognitive neuroscience at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan which he contributed to found in 1993. He has been Fulbright student and visiting scientist at MIT and at Harvard University several times and obtained a “Diplôme d'études supérieures en théorie de la syntaxe et syntaxe comparative” at the University of Geneva. His main fields of research are theoretical syntax (clause structure, expletives, unaccusativity, locality and syntactic movement), the relation between syntax and semantics (predication, existential sentences, definiteness effect, quasi-copular sentences) and neurolinguistics (focussing on the relation between syntax and the brain). As for the latter field of research, he explores the neural correlates of syntax by the use of neuroimaging techniques. His work has provided evidence that syntax correlates with a selective neural network and non-recursive syntaxes do not activate that syntactic network, thus showing that universal grammar cannot be a conventional artifact on neurobiological grounds. Another field of research is the exploration of the neural correlates of negation where he showed that negation is able to modulate motor-planning neural activities. He published many books in English and Italian: The Raising of Predicates (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Dynamic Antisymmetry (MIT Press, 2000), The Boundaries of Babel (MIT Press, 2008) and The Equilibrium of Human Syntax (Routledge 2013), Impossible Languages (MIT Press 2026), "A Brief History of BE" (MIT Press, forthcoming) and papers on international journals including Nature Neuroscience, PNAS and Linguistic Inquiry. See http://www.nets.iusspavia.it/people/moro.php for a collection of videos and interviews
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